Meta Question

If you had the choice to make great to insane amount of money or Fluther, which would you choose?

If in order to make, create, or produce a great amount to an insane amount of money you had to sacrifice 80% or more of your Fluther time, would you? Or is Fluthering something you have to do, and money will not get in the way of it?

.. Out of the time I spend per day on Fluther? I’d still be on Fluther for an hour, or more every day. So I’d take the money. Hah.
If I had to give up Fluther all together, I wouldn’t be able to do it. :)

cash, then you could hire your own team of geniuses to answer any questions you have… maybe I would just pay you all to be at my beck and whim on a website such as this (but obviously wouldn’t be fluther) then I would have the cash too…

What would I have to do to make the money? If it was something I believed in, and would be as interesting and engaging as fluther (like being Dr. Wundy or something on a TV show), then I’d take the cash. If it was representing investment banks in Washington, you can forget it. It also depends on the hours. I am not doing more than thirty hours a week of work, and only 20 hours of that is work directly related to my job. Unless it is so much fun, I want to do more.

Well, given that fluther is what I do in my spare time, I guess I have already made the decision that it’s fluther… I could be working in an all-hours job that presumably meant I earnt decent money (which for me would translate into an insane amount of money), but I’ve chosen not to… and so I have more spare time, less money, resulting in more time on here! :-p

@FutureMemorySomeone should have flagged this for not explaining how much a great amount and an insane amount of money is. :P.I see, I mention X amount of money is great, then Joe Blow can come back and say, “I can live with ⅓ of that”, or John Q can say it was too little. I am sure the smart people of this Lagoon, have some idea above what level good money is. If they don’t, maybe they are really Amish and do not know it.

Well, some here are trying to only be polite and to find out how much…or how little, it would take to blow everyone off here. An insane amount is a no brainer. Everyone could accept that, but how little money would it take is the real curiosity. It’s putting a value on friendship, or lack of, isn’t it? It’s an answer I’m sure some would rather not know :/

I think $200K a year would keep me off here for a job I liked. For a job I didn’t like, it would be upwards of $500k a year, but I’m not sure about that. I’m not sure any amount of money would get me to leave fluther—or anywhere else—to do a job I hated. Still, I guess I might put up with it for a few months if they paid me $1.2 million per year. I doubt if I could do it for more than 3 or 4 months, though.

I am not sure how much it would take. If someone said to me, “you can earn this $xxx,xxx.00 but for this legitimate reason, you have to give up Fluther”, I would do it (it would need to be a big figure and a legitimate reason). However, if it was just “this job is really busy and you can earn $xxx” I don’t know that I would want to stay away from Fluther. For me it is relaxation. If you have a busy job, no matter how much you earn, you need some downtime. For me, Fluther IS downtime.

@XOIIO What drug are you on? I never said I wanted to burn anything. I am, however, interested in taking custody of @woodcutter‘s cash, since he thinks it’s worthless and wants to burn it. I don’t think a photocopied substitute will do for him, either.

@wundayatta Ha, I didn’t say build a fire with all the money, just enough to get it going for a while. And also to a response from @augustlan about getting a head start for the future^^, and the consideration the way it’s being printed up so fast would it not be worth anything but to make a fire with. If you had all my cash to get a blaze going right now, there wouldn’t be much of a heat signature.